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Redskins' McIntosh signs offer [UPDATED]

Redskins linebacker Rocky McIntosh has signed his tender offer, the team announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not released, though McIntosh was initially given a second-round tender of $1.759 million for one season.

The team also made a pair of cuts Monday, releasing kicker Justin Medlock and offensive lineman Paul Fanaika. Medlock's departure means Graham Gano likely will be the only kicker under contract in attendance at the team's final minicamp, which runs Wednesday and Thursday at Redskins Park.

McIntosh, entering his fifth year, has started 45 of his 62 career games and looks likely to be one of the starting inside linebackers in the team's revamped defense.

**Cornerback Carlos Rogers confirmed via text message that he will sign his one-year, $1.54 million tender offer and practice, for the start of training camp, on Thursday.

so, how will we know what his weight is? is there a "weigh-in"? will that info be publicly available? do we count on our friendly RI staff to investigate and report on this? has his weight been such an issue this offseason that every reporter will ask this?

It always seemed strange to me that in an uncapped year the team wouldn't try to sign as many of it's own players as possible to long term deals. Why wouldn't they give guys big fat paychecks this year in exchange for several years under contract in the future with smaller base saleries. Front load the contracts now when there is no limit to what you can spend, and save money later when the cap comes back. Is there some flaw to this plan?

BTW MoodlyMoo, Kaas is cheese in dutch. (I thought a cow should know this.) Cheezemaster (my preferred spelling) and Cheesemaster were already taken as handles, so I had to come up with the closest thing I could think of.

With regard to the discussion about the team not signing Rocky or Carlos to long term deals, perhaps the new regime simply wants to evaluate all the RFA's in their new schemes before giving them long term deals, regardless of how the contracts and salaries are structured. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Evaluate them in the new systems first before you're contractually married to them for years.

so, how will we know what his weight is? is there a "weigh-in"? will that info be publicly available? do we count on our friendly RI staff to investigate and report on this? has his weight been such an issue this offseason that every reporter will ask this?

Posted by: walter-in-fallschurch

No, No weigh in per se. Instead a team from cal tech, Biologists, tectonic plate shift experts and Geologists will use the same techniques used to determind the orbital shift of Planet Earth after the Chilean Earthquake.

While not approved by various science labs, the technique has proven valuable and accurate in the past.

Not only was Jimmy Dean a singer and sausage man (singing sausage man is REALLY unfortunate), but acted in a James Bond movie...and his acting was not nearly as bad as many other Bond extras (Kim Basinger springs to mind, Grace Jones deserves an honorable mention. Jane Seymour. 'nuff said)

What does this have to do with the Redskins. Um...nothing. Just going with the thread

I say just hold on to Aintworth. Then he can't sign with another team, he makes Dan Snyder poorer, and these antics don't get the result he wants. Everybody wins. It's not like he's counting against the salary cap, since he's already drained that for years to come.

Didn't the redskins have the same problem with some guy from Miami? Seem to remember something like that. Stellar pick ups in free agency. Hope McNabb isn't the same kind of bust that almost all the rest have been.